- These
activites can build children's vocabulary, increase their communication
skills and prepare them to adapt what they know about oral language
as they explore written language.
- Group Words
- How Do You Use It?
- I Did / What Did You Do?
- Stuffed Animal Mystery
- Who Stole the Cookies?
Storytelling- You don't need a book to promote reading readiness and a love of stories!
- Children love actively participating in these narratives, chants, and games.
- As children combine these chants and songs with actions, they establish firm links between language, its use, and its meaning.
- Puppets offer children wonderful opportunities to explore the meaning of concepts,story plots, and characters, facilitating future reading comprehension.
- Music provides a most enjoyable way to build language facility.
Oral Language Activites that Develop Reading Readiness
Games
and Circle Time Activites that Build Receptive and Expressive
Language
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